Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto, like all the team at Séptima Dental, specializes in monophasic implantology and strategic implantology after observing that this type of implantology provides better results for her patients.
What are the differences between the two implants?
Monophasic and strategic implants offer better long-term results. Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto and the Séptima Dental team have observed that patients with monophasic implants have less or no peri-implantitis (a disease in which implants develop infection and can be lost over the years).
What is the reason for this difference?
In the case of dental implants, bacteria are the cause of infections. The smooth neck of the single-phase implant used at Séptima Dental repels bacteria, since they find it very difficult to adhere to a polished and gearless surface.
On the other hand, we have the conventional two-phase implant with a rough neck. Conventional implantology uses an implant formed by 3 pieces: the implant itself, an abutment, the crown and a screw that joins all the pieces. There is always a gear and, therefore, a gap through which bacteria circulate.
This causes peri-implantitis to be considered normal from the fifth year onwards in all studies on the evolution of this type of implants.
Why is Séptima Dental so sure of the efficacy of these single-phase implants?
Because both the clinic and its director, the doctor and stomatologist Juan Antonio Martínez Silva, have more than 20 years of experience in the sector and have been placing implants in their clinics in Seville and Ceuta since then.
The obsession to offer the maximum guarantees and definitive results to patients who evolved negatively with biphasic or conventional implants, drove the team to look for innovative solutions and come up with monophasic implantology.
Clinical cases such as the one shown below support the conclusions of Dr. Martínez Nieto and the Séptima Dental team. Today, they only use single-stage, smooth-neck implants.
Two years after surgery of biphasic implants in the lower arch.
The patient loses his natural teeth in the entire upper arch. Single-phase implants are used to provide fixed teeth.
Two implants are lost due to peri-implantitis with conventional or biphasic implants. Above we can see monophasic implants and the bone is stable.
With the passage of time, the single-phase implants continue without peri-implantitis (above) and the two-phase or conventional implants below continue to lose bone due to peri-implantitis.
The patient decides to place implants again in the lower arch, this time using the single-phase implant technique that was used in the upper arch.
Today, the patient only has single-phase implants and does not suffer from any type of peri-implantitis in any arch and has also managed to recover the lost lower bone.
What are the other advantages of single-phase implantology?
In addition to the long-term improvements, thanks to the Silva-Nieto Strategic Implants Technique that Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto and Dr. Martínez Silva have developed in their clinics in Seville and Ceuta.
The operated patients are never left without teeth, this is known as immediate load implants because they get a completely esthetic semi-permanent prosthesis on the same day that they can wear even for years, due to its visual and functional qualities.
Is implant surgery dangerous or painful?
Not at all. In the Seville and Ceuta clinics of Séptima Dental, the Silva-Kos Technique has also been developed and by means of a 3D X-ray a personalized pre-surgical template is made for each patient that completely eliminates the margin of error when placing the implants and in fact, most patients are operated on without even receiving a cut in the gum.
Therefore, the single-phase implants used at Séptima Dental by Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto and Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto are the most common implants used by Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto and Dr. Martínez Nieto. Martínez Silva are ideal for patients with anticoagulants, immunosuppressed, diabetics, heart problems or any type of systemic problem. It is a minimally invasive surgery.
Is monophasic implantology more expensive than conventional implantology?
No. Our patients do not find great differences. One of the many advantages of monophasic implantology is that it reduces chair time, the number of visits to the dentist and, of course, the number of attachments (pieces) that make up the implant. Therefore, although single-phase implant dentistry is better, it does not make the treatment more expensive.
Moreover, a variant of monophasic implantology is strategic implantology, used especially for patients with little bone, in which Dr. Irene Martínez Nieto and Dr. Martínez Nieto also specialize. Martinez Silva and is designed to strategically place the implants in the bone that has not yet been lost, which allows the patient to save the cost of bone grafting (highly expensive biomaterial) and surgery for it.